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Deuteronomy 24:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Deuteronomy 24:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 24
Marriage Laws.[a] 1 If a man marries a woman, and after they are married she becomes displeasing to him because he has discovered something indecent about her, and he writes a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand, and he sends her forth from his house, 2 then after she has left his house, she can become the wife of another man.
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- Deuteronomy 24:1 Divorce, like polygamy (see Deut 21:15), was customary at that period, and in both cases the law simply reduced the drawbacks, without approving the practices (see Mt 19:7-9).